Hey, maybe Amber and Dorothy can become, like, the Sub-Zero and Scorpion of this web comic! You know, they start out as palette-swaps of each other (except that one of them can breathe fire from her fleshless skull), only over time they start diverging, beginning when one shows up without a mask or shirt in a sequel. But then when they both come back they really do look different for a while, and one of them even becomes the Shredder kinda, only to go back to being palette swaps in the most recent instlalment, except one of them’s a robot now.

I vote yes to this as well, but I feel it is important, nay vital to stress a vote for these two characters to disrobe is NOT a vote against any other characters disrobing, either now or at some future point.

It was a surprise to *me* if that helps, I guess I was just to detail oriented to see the big picture similarities (also, I think a good amount of people just jumped on the Dorothy/Amber bandwagon thinking it was a joke)

Actually, the real reason is because I prefer drawing Amber this way. When I first started drawing Roomies! nearly 14 years ago, I made a mistake in drawing Sal looking like the way I drew her in high school, expecting she’d slowly grow into the way I drew her currently. That was dumb, because I hated that old way and I hated having to draw her that way in flashbacks. So, no, Amber just always looked like she does now. Mostly. She’s too young to have been alive when giant dinner-plate-sized glasses were in vogue anyway.

Thanks for clearing that up. And I suppose the old glasses would be too outdated, but her long hair could still be unfashionably nerdy of her. While Amber and Dorothy’s likeness is uncanny and would be confusing if this strip was in black and white I can tell them apart since Amber’s hair hangs in front of her ears while Dorothy’s hair flips to the right.

If it counts for anything, even though I saw the resemblances just fine… It never really clicked until Joe pointed it out just now. I knew Amber and Dorothy had many similar features, yet my brain never made the connection of “Danny’s gunning for a girl who looks a lot like his ex.”

When Danny first noticed Amber’s resemblance to someone he knows, he was first confused, then, when realizing that someone was the girl that had dumped him the evening before, suddenly very uneasy. (He looked something between disgusted to crept out, but it probably just were the hurtful memories re-emerging.)

I think what attracted Amber and Danny towards each other later on were common interests and interests they found interesting in the respective other (computer science incl. stuff from its good ‘old’ times like BBSs, gaming, my little ponies), shared opinions (‘The CS intro course sucks!’) and general geekiness without too much creepiness (in their own eyes, at least.)

Off course, that doesn’t have to mean there isn’t a certain type of FAAAAAAAAAAACE that Danny goes after, whether consciously or not. But I doubt he chose Amber as an as-similar-as-possible replacement, more that just both Dorothy’s and Amber’s look fit a pattern he might like.

When Danny first noticed Amber’s resemblance to someone he knows, he was first confused, then, when realizing that someone was the girl that had dumped him the evening before, suddenly very uneasy.
I’m pretty sure the person that Amber “resembled” was Amazi-Girl. You know, for obvious reasons.

I didn’t notice the few and extremely superficial similarities between Amber and Dorothy until people started calling them palette-swapped versions of each other (which definitely isn’t true). They’re roughly the same size, they both have a rounded hairstyle of same length, and they both have glasses. That’s it. If they dyed their hair the same color and put on the same clothes, the difference would still be obvious.

To be fair its not a cockblock yet. Neither girl realized what Joe is talking about yet.

But either way, Joe wanted to include Dorothy on his sex-up list less then five seconds after Danny and her broke up and has already made a sex tape in the same room as a sleeping Danny, with a sequel planned that very night. Honestly, cockblocking doesn’t seem that shocking for Joe.

I’ll be honest… they really don’t seem to be that similar to me. The only things they have in common are their basic hair shapes and their positions (looking down at a phone, which is a very common position these days).
Beyond that, though, they seem very, very different. Let’s see:
-Different nose shapes
-One has hair swept behind ears, other does not
-Different face shapes (Amber has a pointed chin)
-Glasses are different shapes
-Different heights

And, at the risk of putting too much emphasis on detail, they also seem to have arms that are different widths, necks with different lengths, and different shaped breasts. And, of course, they have different hair colors. Given that this is a cartoon, which can only have so much detail included, that is a very long list of differences.

I mean, maybe it’s just me, but they seem to be very distinct characters. I’m seeing hardly any similarity at all.

I agree – to me they look “nothing alike” either. On the other hand, I can see why Joe would take one look and say “replacement!”: since outside sprite comments people aren’t actual palette swaps of one another, the fact that Danny manage to so quickly find another girl that did fit the ‘short, short-haired, bespectacled’ mold is still close enough to raise eyebrows.

my younger brother has had two girlfriends. both are hispanic and older than he is. they look completely different, but we can still say he has a thing for older, hispanic women.

can’t we make similar comments towards danny? he has a thing for short, glasses-wearing women with short hair. i know people are saying the dorothy and amber are a little more identical than that, but they are drawn in a simple style. subtle details are easy to overlook, especially when the two characters aren’t shown next to each other.

I can’t tell if Danny’s FAAAAAAAAAAAAACE says, “Somebody get me out of here ASAP!” or “I really need to get to the bathroom”. Maybe he’s trying to say, “I just went to the bathroom, so somebody get me out of here ASAP!” Jeez, does the sight of Dorothy still freak him out so much?

Oh… I’ve had this happen to me. And I was the ‘new’ one. So, either everyone’s going to think it’s funny, or we go the realistic route… Incredibly awkward, and Amber walks away with a Dorothy-complex. ((Danny-complex? Not sure how you would name it…))

Okay, I’m starting to remember that there was a comic in which some guy goes “Faaaace?”, but I can’t remember for the life of me which one it is or which of the comics it’s from. Can somebody help me out here?

Personally, they’ve always looked a lot alike to me. I see all the differences that everyone else has pointed out, but the similar heights, glasses, and especially the giant circular balls of hair overwhelm the differences in my eyes.

Okay, cool. I’m re-reading my way through the archive, and I was wondering when/if this would happen. It’s harder to tell how different they look in just the banner (which, amusingly, is the full-cast one for me right now) – and looking at it, Dorothy looks like the only character who has a round chin.

Couple wigs, heels (for Amber), change of clothes and a little makeup, and they could cosplay as each other.